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The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R. by Carole DeSanti (2012, Hardcover) ex-library
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- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller Notes
- “Ex-library--stamps, and stickers.”
- Modification Description
- Ex-library--stamps, and stickers.
- Signed
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Subject
- Drama
- Title/Series
- The Unruly Passions Of Eugenie R.
- Modified Item
- Yes
- Vintage
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- Type
- Novel
- Year
- 2012
- Special Attributes
- Ex-Library
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780547553092
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0547553099
ISBN-13
9780547553092
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109080215
Product Key Features
Book Title
Unruly Passions of Eugenie R.
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Historical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
22.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-016540
Reviews
Lord! This is a great piece of work. Eugénie is a wonderfully maddening heroine. She lives up in her head even as her boots are in the mud of desperation. How beautifully this is written! How rare that can be to discover on the page., "I lost myself whole-heartedly in [Eugnie's] story, and would have followed her down any narrow alley, into any candlelit room, just to know what happened, to stay back there and to delay coming home." --Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress "A sweeping, fascinating epic full of drama and beauty."-- Publishers Weekly " The Unruly Passions of Eugnie R. is as much a personal meditation on women's emotional and professional tradeoffs as it is a sweeping saga of the decadent Paris that spawned Madame Bovary . ... Don't read this fiercely intelligent novel if you simply want a good love story dressed up in period clothes. Read it for the complex sexual politics, lush language, and mirror onto our own excessive, heedless times."--Sheri Holman, author of The Dress Lodger " The Unruly Passions of Eugnie R. is an arresting tale of what it meant to survive as a woman in 19th-century France. With spare, powerful prose Carole DeSanti's debut novel paints an unflinching portrait of love and loss against a landscape of Parisian decadence." -- Deborah Harkness, author of A Discovery of Witches "Epic times make for epic books. The Unruly Passions of Eugnie R. is both sweeping in scope and painstaking in detail. Eugnie R.'s story, from naive goosegirl to resilient survivor, makes for wonderful, suspenseful reading, but tumultuous Paris is equally compelling, laid out here by DeSanti in all her grisly or gorgeous glory." -- Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club "Against a carefully recreated landscape of France and the City of Lights during the 1860s, with the Prussian army heading for Paris, DeSanti brings a 21st-century sensitivity for the plight and passions of women in her rendering of Eugnie and the women and men she comes to travel (and drink) among." --Mireille Guiliano, internationally best-selling author of French Women Don't Get Fat "Reading The Unruly Passions of Eugnie R. is like entering a lush dream filled with beauty and brutality. This astonishing debut is a panoramic story of war and peace, love and betrayal, innocence and hard-won wisdom, told through the eyes of a compelling woman who kept me at her side through it all." --Lauren Belfer, author of A Fierce Radiance "So richly and sensuously drawn one can almost feel it . . . Perhaps if [Eugnie's] contemporary, Emma Bovary, had possessed the ingenuity, wit, and tenacity of Eugnie R., Madame B. wouldn't have had to take that arsenic." -- Valerie Martin, author of The Confessions of Edward Day "Lord! This is a great piece of work. How beautifully this is written. How rare that is to discover on the page." -- Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out Of Carolina "A magnificent novel in scope and achievement, powerfully written yet delicately evocative." -- Fay Weldon, DeSanti's debut novel paints an unflinching portrait of love and loss against a landscape of Parisian decadence., "I lost myself whole-heartedly in [Eugénie's] story, and would have followed her down any narrow alley, into any candlelit room, just to know what happened, to stay back there and to delay coming home." -Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress " The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is an arresting tale of what it meant to survive as a woman in 19th-century France. With spare, powerful prose Carole DeSanti's debut novel paints an unflinching portrait of love and loss against a landscape of Parisian decadence." - Deborah Harkness, author of A Discovery of Witches "Epic times make for epic books. The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is both sweeping in scope and painstaking in detail. Eugénie R.'s story, from naive goosegirl to resilient survivor, makes for wonderful, suspenseful reading, but tumultuous Paris is equally compelling, laid out here by DeSanti in all her grisly or gorgeous glory." - Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club "Against a carefully recreated landscape of France and the City of Lights during the 1860s, with the Prussian army heading for Paris, DeSanti brings a 21st-century sensitivity for the plight and passions of women in her rendering of Eugénie and the women and men she comes to travel (and drink) among." -Mireille Guiliano, internationally best-selling author of French Women Don't Get Fat "Reading The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is like entering a lush dream filled with beauty and brutality. This astonishing debut is a panoramic story of war and peace, love and betrayal, innocence and hard-won wisdom, told through the eyes of a compelling woman who kept me at her side through it all." -Lauren Belfer, author of A Fierce Radiance "So richly and sensuously drawn one can almost feel it . . . Perhaps if [Eugénie's] contemporary, Emma Bovary, had possessed the ingenuity, wit, and tenacity of Eugénie R., Madame B. wouldn't have had to take that arsenic." - Valerie Martin, author of The Confessions of Edward Day "Lord! This is a great piece of work. How beautifully this is written. How rare that is to discover on the page." - Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out Of Carolina "A magnificent novel in scope and achievement, powerfully written yet delicately evocative." - Fay Weldon, "I lost myself whole-heartedly in [Eugénie's] story, and would have followed her down any narrow alley, into any candlelit room, just to know what happened, to stay back there and to delay coming home." -Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress "A sweeping, fascinating epic full of drama and beauty."-Publishers Weekly " The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is as much a personal meditation on women's emotional and professional tradeoffs as it is a sweeping saga of the decadent Paris that spawned Madame Bovary.… Don't read this fiercely intelligent novel if you simply want a good love story dressed up in period clothes. Read it for the complex sexual politics, lush language, and mirror onto our own excessive, heedless times."-Sheri Holman, author of The Dress Lodger " The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is an arresting tale of what it meant to survive as a woman in 19th-century France. With spare, powerful prose Carole DeSanti's debut novel paints an unflinching portrait of love and loss against a landscape of Parisian decadence." - Deborah Harkness, author of A Discovery of Witches "Epic times make for epic books. The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is both sweeping in scope and painstaking in detail. Eugénie R.'s story, from naive goosegirl to resilient survivor, makes for wonderful, suspenseful reading, but tumultuous Paris is equally compelling, laid out here by DeSanti in all her grisly or gorgeous glory." - Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club "Against a carefully recreated landscape of France and the City of Lights during the 1860s, with the Prussian army heading for Paris, DeSanti brings a 21st-century sensitivity for the plight and passions of women in her rendering of Eugénie and the women and men she comes to travel (and drink) among." -Mireille Guiliano, internationally best-selling author of French Women Don't Get Fat "Reading The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is like entering a lush dream filled with beauty and brutality. This astonishing debut is a panoramic story of war and peace, love and betrayal, innocence and hard-won wisdom, told through the eyes of a compelling woman who kept me at her side through it all." -Lauren Belfer, author of A Fierce Radiance "So richly and sensuously drawn one can almost feel it . . . Perhaps if [Eugénie's] contemporary, Emma Bovary, had possessed the ingenuity, wit, and tenacity of Eugénie R., Madame B. wouldn't have had to take that arsenic." - Valerie Martin, author of The Confessions of Edward Day "Lord! This is a great piece of work. How beautifully this is written. How rare that is to discover on the page." - Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out Of Carolina "A magnificent novel in scope and achievement, powerfully written yet delicately evocative." - Fay Weldon, "I lost myself whole-heartedly in [Eugénie's] story, and would have followed her down any narrow alley, into any candlelit room, just to know what happened, to stay back there and to delay coming home." --Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress "A sweeping, fascinating epic full of drama and beauty."-- Publishers Weekly " The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is as much a personal meditation on women's emotional and professional tradeoffs as it is a sweeping saga of the decadent Paris that spawned Madame Bovary . ... Don't read this fiercely intelligent novel if you simply want a good love story dressed up in period clothes. Read it for the complex sexual politics, lush language, and mirror onto our own excessive, heedless times."--Sheri Holman, author of The Dress Lodger " The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is an arresting tale of what it meant to survive as a woman in 19th-century France. With spare, powerful prose Carole DeSanti's debut novel paints an unflinching portrait of love and loss against a landscape of Parisian decadence." -- Deborah Harkness, author of A Discovery of Witches "Epic times make for epic books. The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is both sweeping in scope and painstaking in detail. Eugénie R.'s story, from naive goosegirl to resilient survivor, makes for wonderful, suspenseful reading, but tumultuous Paris is equally compelling, laid out here by DeSanti in all her grisly or gorgeous glory." -- Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club "Against a carefully recreated landscape of France and the City of Lights during the 1860s, with the Prussian army heading for Paris, DeSanti brings a 21st-century sensitivity for the plight and passions of women in her rendering of Eugénie and the women and men she comes to travel (and drink) among." --Mireille Guiliano, internationally best-selling author of French Women Don't Get Fat "Reading The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is like entering a lush dream filled with beauty and brutality. This astonishing debut is a panoramic story of war and peace, love and betrayal, innocence and hard-won wisdom, told through the eyes of a compelling woman who kept me at her side through it all." --Lauren Belfer, author of A Fierce Radiance "So richly and sensuously drawn one can almost feel it . . . Perhaps if [Eugénie's] contemporary, Emma Bovary, had possessed the ingenuity, wit, and tenacity of Eugénie R., Madame B. wouldn't have had to take that arsenic." -- Valerie Martin, author of The Confessions of Edward Day "Lord! This is a great piece of work. How beautifully this is written. How rare that is to discover on the page." -- Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out Of Carolina "A magnificent novel in scope and achievement, powerfully written yet delicately evocative." -- Fay Weldon, "I lost myself whole-heartedly in [Eugénie's] story, and would have followed her down any narrow alley, into any candlelit room, just to know what happened, to stay back there and to delay coming home." -Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress "A sweeping, fascinating epic full of drama and beauty."- Publishers Weekly " The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is as much a personal meditation on women's emotional and professional tradeoffs as it is a sweeping saga of the decadent Paris that spawned Madame Bovary . … Don't read this fiercely intelligent novel if you simply want a good love story dressed up in period clothes. Read it for the complex sexual politics, lush language, and mirror onto our own excessive, heedless times."-Sheri Holman, author of The Dress Lodger " The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is an arresting tale of what it meant to survive as a woman in 19th-century France. With spare, powerful prose Carole DeSanti's debut novel paints an unflinching portrait of love and loss against a landscape of Parisian decadence." - Deborah Harkness, author of A Discovery of Witches "Epic times make for epic books. The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is both sweeping in scope and painstaking in detail. Eugénie R.'s story, from naive goosegirl to resilient survivor, makes for wonderful, suspenseful reading, but tumultuous Paris is equally compelling, laid out here by DeSanti in all her grisly or gorgeous glory." - Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club "Against a carefully recreated landscape of France and the City of Lights during the 1860s, with the Prussian army heading for Paris, DeSanti brings a 21st-century sensitivity for the plight and passions of women in her rendering of Eugénie and the women and men she comes to travel (and drink) among." -Mireille Guiliano, internationally best-selling author of French Women Don't Get Fat "Reading The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is like entering a lush dream filled with beauty and brutality. This astonishing debut is a panoramic story of war and peace, love and betrayal, innocence and hard-won wisdom, told through the eyes of a compelling woman who kept me at her side through it all." -Lauren Belfer, author of A Fierce Radiance "So richly and sensuously drawn one can almost feel it . . . Perhaps if [Eugénie's] contemporary, Emma Bovary, had possessed the ingenuity, wit, and tenacity of Eugénie R., Madame B. wouldn't have had to take that arsenic." - Valerie Martin, author of The Confessions of Edward Day "Lord! This is a great piece of work. How beautifully this is written. How rare that is to discover on the page." - Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out Of Carolina "A magnificent novel in scope and achievement, powerfully written yet delicately evocative." - Fay Weldon, The Unruly Passions is both sweeping in scope and painstaking in detail.Eugénie's story, from naive goose girl to resilient survivor, makes for wonderful, suspenseful reading, but tumultuous Paris is equally compelling, laid out here in all her grisly or gorgeous glory., "Against a carefully recreated landscape of France and the City of Lights during the 1860s, with the Prussian army heading for Paris, DeSanti brings a 21st-century sensitivity for the plight and passions of women in her rendering of Eugénie and the women and men she comes to travel (and drink) among." -- Mireille Guiliano, internationally best-selling author of French Women Don't Get Fat "Lord! This is a great piece of work. The heroine, Eugénie Rigault, is completely maddening, of course -- which makes for great plot. She lives up in her head even as her boots are in the mud of desperation, and her loves and lovers have layers on layers -- just as does the society DeSanti makes on the page. How beautifully this is written. How rare that is to discover on the page." -- Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out Of Carolina "Epic times make for epic books. The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R . is both sweeping in scope and painstaking in detail. Eugénie R.'s story, from naive goosegirl to resilient survivor, makes for wonderful, suspenseful reading, but tumultuous Paris is equally compelling, laid out here by DeSanti in all her grisly or gorgeous glory. If you love a novel that brings a place and time alive again, this one is for you. If you love a novel of character and adversity, again, here it is." -- Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club
Dewey Edition
22
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The
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
"As fiercely depicted as the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec." -- Stephanie Cowell, author of Claude and Camille Love and war converge in this lush, epic story of a young woman's coming of age during and after France's Second Empire (1860-1871), an era that was absinthe-soaked, fueled by railway money and prostitution, and transformed by cataclysmic social upheaval. Eugénie R., born in foie gras country, follows the man she loves to Paris but soon finds herself marooned. An outcast, she charts the treacherous waters of sexual commerce on a journey through artists' ateliers and pawnshops, zinc bars and luxurious bordellos. Giving birth to a daughter she is forced to abandon, Eugénie spends the next ten years fighting to get her back, falling in love along the way with an artist, a woman, and a revolutionary. Then, as the gates of the cityclose on the eve of the Siege of Paris, Eugénie comes face to face with her past. Drawn into a net of desire and need, promises and lies, she must make a choice and find her way to a life that she can call her own. "Eugénie R.'s story drops us into the dark velvety centers of sex, sin, and political intrigue, and takes us along on her own instinctive journey to modern womanhood." -- Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA "This astonishing debut is a panoramic story of war and peace, love and betrayal, innocence and hard-won wisdom." -- Lauren Belfer, author of A Fierce Radiance, "As fiercely depicted as the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec." -- Stephanie Cowell, author of Claude and Camille Love and war converge in this lush, epic story of a young woman's coming of age during and after France's Second Empire (1860-1871), an era that was absinthe-soaked, fueled by railway money and prostitution, and transformed by cataclysmic social upheaval. Eug nie R., born in foie gras country, follows the man she loves to Paris but soon finds herself marooned. An outcast, she charts the treacherous waters of sexual commerce on a journey through artists' ateliers and pawnshops, zinc bars and luxurious bordellos. Giving birth to a daughter she is forced to abandon, Eug nie spends the next ten years fighting to get her back, falling in love along the way with an artist, a woman, and a revolutionary. Then, as the gates of the city close on the eve of the Siege of Paris, Eug nie comes face to face with her past. Drawn into a net of desire and need, promises and lies, she must make a choice and find her way to a life that she can call her own. "Eug nie R.'s story drops us into the dark velvety centers of sex, sin, and political intrigue, and takes us along on her own instinctive journey to modern womanhood." -- Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA "This astonishing debut is a panoramic story of war and peace, love and betrayal, innocence and hard-won wisdom." -- Lauren Belfer, author of A Fierce Radiance, Love, war, and commerce converge in this lush, epic story of a woman who follows her love to Paris, only to find herself marooned, pregnant, and penniless. Set around France's Second Empire, where absinthe, prostitution, vast wealth, and cataclysmic social upheaval abound, this novel delicately explores the contrary requirements of a woman's survival.
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PS3604.E7549U57 2012
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